| Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life Revised Edition Contributor(s): Karasek, Robert (Author), Theorell, Tores (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465028977 ISBN-13: 9780465028979 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $25.73 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1992 Annotation: Evidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. Based on a ten-year study of nearly five thousand workers, this path-breaking book identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers' lack of participation in the design and outcome of their labors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Management - General |
| Dewey: 658.542 |
| LCCN: 89042514 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.06" W x 8.9" (1.22 lbs) 398 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Evidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. But what do we really know about job-related stress and illness? Based on a ten-year study of nearly five thousand workers, this path-breaking book by a distinguished industrial engineer and sociologist and a specialist in industrial medicine identifies a clear connection between work-related illness and workers' lack of participation in the design and outcome of their labors. |